How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
And would it really be three days? Or there hours? Or ten days? None of us had any way to know anything but this: The wizards had done this many times. It had become routine to them, watching boys die. I hated them so deeply, so completely, that it scared me. (64.5)
Here Hahp grasps one of the ways that the wizards manage to so totally manipulate the boys: the wizards control time. Not literally like in the sense of time travel (though maybe they can do that too), but rather by keeping the boys underground and not letting them adjust to any normal schedule. The wizards are the only ones who know how much time passes between classes and other encounters, leaving the boys clueless and dependent.
In contrast to the type of emotional blackmail that Somiss pulls on Franklin and Sadima, this sort of manipulation is physical but has a mental result, confusing and making the target(s) vulnerable. Hahp's right: the wizards have this down to a science.